"giraffe piano" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the resemblance of the case to a giraffe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giraffe pianos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giraffe piano (plural giraffe pianos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Albert Ernest Wier, The Piano: Its History, Makers, Players and Music, page 55",
          "text": "The giraffe piano was made during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century, and was named from its obvious resemblance to the well-known animal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Franz Josef Hirt, Stringed Keyboard Instruments, 1440-1880, page 147",
          "text": "The upright pianoforte by Domenico del Mela in 1739 is the unique example at that time of the upright giraffe piano.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jiri Rak, Guido Lagomarsino, Biedermeier: Art and Culture in Central Europe, 1815-1848, page 178",
          "text": "His known pieces include a pyramid piano in Vienna in the “Sammlung alter Musikinstrument\", two grand pianos and this giraffe piano; they were all made in Bohemia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piano that is built like a grand piano on its side with the small end at the top, often with a scroll at the top to suggest a giraffe's head;"
      ],
      "id": "en-giraffe_piano-en-noun-aXBChguz",
      "links": [
        [
          "grand piano",
          "grand piano"
        ],
        [
          "scroll",
          "scroll"
        ],
        [
          "giraffe",
          "giraffe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giraffe piano"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the resemblance of the case to a giraffe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giraffe pianos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giraffe piano (plural giraffe pianos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Albert Ernest Wier, The Piano: Its History, Makers, Players and Music, page 55",
          "text": "The giraffe piano was made during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century, and was named from its obvious resemblance to the well-known animal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Franz Josef Hirt, Stringed Keyboard Instruments, 1440-1880, page 147",
          "text": "The upright pianoforte by Domenico del Mela in 1739 is the unique example at that time of the upright giraffe piano.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jiri Rak, Guido Lagomarsino, Biedermeier: Art and Culture in Central Europe, 1815-1848, page 178",
          "text": "His known pieces include a pyramid piano in Vienna in the “Sammlung alter Musikinstrument\", two grand pianos and this giraffe piano; they were all made in Bohemia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piano that is built like a grand piano on its side with the small end at the top, often with a scroll at the top to suggest a giraffe's head;"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grand piano",
          "grand piano"
        ],
        [
          "scroll",
          "scroll"
        ],
        [
          "giraffe",
          "giraffe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giraffe piano"
}